Bilingualism Delays Onset of Dementia

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 15, 2007 @04:34PM from the brain-exercise dept.

Dee writes with word of a Canadian study indicating that lifelong bilingualism delays the onset of dementia by 4 years. The scientists were reportedly "dazzled" by the results. From the article: "The researchers determined that the mean age of onset of dementia symptoms in the monolingual group was 71.4 years, while the bilingual group was 75.5 years. This difference remained even after considering the possible effect of cultural differences, immigration, formal education, employment and even gender as influencers in the results. "

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I bet... by kruhft · 2007-01-15 19:09 · Score: 0, Redundant

...correlation won't mean causation in this case. Or any case, in the case of an article like this showing up on /.

Just a hunch, but hey, what would I know?

Is there an echo in here?

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